Fatty Liver

When fatty liver develops even at a normal weight, it is sometimes called "lean-obese fatty liver." It's not the subcutaneous fat you can see on the surface, but visceral fat packed between the organs in your abdomen, or low muscle mass that reduces your ability to burn sugar, that causes fat to pile up in the liver. Sweet drinks, refined carbohydrates like white rice and flour, and lack of exercise all encourage fatty liver even in thin people.

Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective

At Dongjedang, rather than whether someone's build is large or small, we look at "whether surplus is circulating inside the body and whether it is being burned well." Even thin people, when circulation stagnates and metabolism slows, accumulate surplus on the liver. Instead of outward appearance, we approach by reviving the flow of the body's inner metabolism, clearing what has built up in the liver, and turning the values around together.